[ecrea] 'Sex and Celebrity' workshop

Expressions of Interest & Call for Papers:
Sex and Celebrity PGR Workshop
Thursday 28th June 2018, University of Portsmouth
Keynote Speaker:
Professor John Mercer, Birmingham City University
This one-day PGR Workshop seeks to interrogate the relationship between 
sex and celebrity – the role of sex in the construction, negotiation and 
perpetuation of celebrity identity. As well as academic papers and 
roundtable discussion, this event will also include PGR 
professionalization sessions.
This free PGR workshop asks how sex and sexuality form, create and 
change our relationship to celebrity: how do sex and celebrity 
intersect? What roles do sex stories, exposés and scandals have in the 
formation and/or devaluing of celebrity? Is desire an inherent part of 
celebrity culture? How do attitudes to sex and celebrity change across 
time, cultures and societies? What role does the media play in forging 
links between sex and celebrity? How do film and literature interrogate 
and promote the relationship between sex, fame and celebrity? What are 
the effects upon celebrity of sexual infidelity, revelations and even 
sex crimes?
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

·         Sex and the creation of celebrity

·         Desire and celebrity; the sexualisation of celebrity

·         Celebrity, sex and gender; LGBTQIA and celebrity

·         Celebrity sex experts, advisors and campaigners

·         Sex, celebrity and the media

·         Sex, infamy and notoriety

·         Celebrity affairs, infidelity and indiscretions

·         Sex, crimes and trials

·         Celebrity sex tapes, sex scandals and confessions

·         Celebrity and pornography

·         Sex and celebrity in literature, film, art, etc.

The organisers welcome proposals for 15 minute papers that consider 
‘celebrity and sex’ in their many forms, and from a variety of 
historical and disciplinary perspectives.
Please send 200-word abstracts, with a 50-word biography to 
(ccs /at/ port.ac.uk) <mailto:(ccs /at/ port.ac.uk)> by Friday 18th May.

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